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It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living
A collection of original essays written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people. Born out of Dan Savage's "It Gets Better" project at http://www.itgetsbetter.org/
338 p. 2011
Teen Nonfiction Book
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The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves
Collects letters from such GLBTQ writers including Brian Selznick, Michael Cunningham, and Amy Bloom to offer youth (and their younger selves) perspective and support on growing up GLBTQ.
281 p. 2012
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Speaking Out: LGBTQ Youth Stand Up
Speaking Out features stories for and about LGBT and Q teens by fresh voices as well as noted authors in the field of young adult literature.
277 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Adams, S. J.
Sparks: the Epic Completely True Blue (almost) Holy Quest of Debbie
A sixteen-year-old lesbian tries to get over a crush on her religious best friend by embarking on a "holy quest" with a couple of misfits who have invented a wacky, made-up faith called the Church of Blue.
256 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Barnes, David-Matthew
Swimming to Chicago
Reeling from his mother's suicide, 17-year-old Alex retreats from the world around him, often finding solace on a secluded island behind his house. As an Armenian-American living in a small Southern town, Alex struggles to fit in. His close friend, the outspoken Jillian, is the only bright spot in his life, until he meets and falls in love with Robby, an introverted new student at school.
234 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Beam, Cris
I Am J
J always felt different. He was certain that eventually everyone would understand who he really was: a boy mistakenly born as a girl. Yet as he grew up, his body began to betray him; eventually J stopped praying to wake up a "real boy" and started covering up his body, keeping himself invisible--from his family, from his friends...from the world. But after being deserted by the best friend he thought would always be by his side, J decides that he's done hiding.
326 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Belge, Kathy
Queer: the Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens
A guide that helps LGBT teens come out to friends and family, navigate their new LGBT social life, figure out if a crush is also queer, and rise up against bigotry and homophobia.
208 p. 2011
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Burd, Nick
The Vast Fields of Ordinary
The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love.
309 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Coyote, Ivan E.
One in Every Crowd: Stories
Stories for everyone who has ever felt alone in their struggle to be true to themselves. These are honest, wry, plain-spoken tales about gender, identity and family.
238 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
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Cronn-Mills, Kirstin
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
Gabe has always identified as a boy, but he was born with a girl's body. With his new public access radio show gaining in popularity, Gabe struggles with romance, friendships, and parents--all while trying to come out as transgendered. An audition for a station in Minneapolis looks like his ticket to a better life in the big city. But his entire future is threatened when several violent guys find out Gabe, the popular DJ, is also Elizabeth from school.
271 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
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Dos Santos, Steven
The Culling
In a futuristic world ruled by a totalitarian government called the Establishment, Lucian "Lucky" Spark and four other teenagers are recruited for the Trials. What Lucky isn’t prepared for is his undeniable attraction to the handsome, rebellious Digory Tycho.
420 p. 2013
Teen Fiction Book
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Eagland, Jane
Wildthorn
They strip her naked, of everything—undo her whalebone corset, hook by hook. Locked away in Wildthorn Hall—a madhouse—they take her identity. She is now called Lucy Childs. She has no one; she has nothing. But, she is still seventeen—still Louisa Cosgrove, isn't she? Who has done this unthinkable deed? Louisa must free herself, in more ways than one, and muster up the courage to be her true self, all the while solving her own twisted mystery and falling into an unconventional love...
350 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Farrey, Brian
With or Without You
When eighteen-year-old best friends Evan and Davis of Madison, Wisconsin, join a community center group called "chasers" to gain acceptance and knowledge of gay history, there may be fatal consequences.
348 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Garden, Nancy
Annie On My Mind
Liza tries to put aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at Foster Academy, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of others.
263 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book GARDEN
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George, Madeleine
The Difference Between You and Me
School outsider Jesse, a lesbian, is having secret trysts with Emily, the popular student council vice president, but when they find themselves on opposite sides of a major issue and Jesse becomes more involved with a student activist, they are forced to make a difficult decision.
256 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
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Gold, Rachel Benson
Being Emily
For Emily, named Christopher at birth, telling her parents who she really is means a therapist who insists Christopher is normal and Emily is sick. Emily desperately wants high school in her small Minnesota town to get better. She wants to be the woman she knows is inside, but it's not until a substitute therapist and a girl named Natalie come into her life that she believes she has a chance of actually Being Emily.
210 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
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Goode, L. (Laura)
Sister Mischief
Esme Rockett, also known as MC Ferocious, rocks her suburban Minnesota Christian high school with more than the hip-hop music she makes with best friends Marcy (DJ SheStorm) and Tess (The ConTessa) when she falls in love with her co-MC, Rowie (MC Rohini).
367 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Griffin, Molly Beth
Silhouette of a Sparrow
During the summer of 1926 in Excelsior, Minnesota, sixteen-year-old Garnet, who dreams of indulging her passion for ornithology, is resigned to marrying a nice boy and settling into middle-class homemaking until she takes a liberating job in a hat shop and begins an intense, secret relationship with a daring and beautiful flapper.
189 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
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Griffo, Michael
Unnatural
In the town of Eden in northwestern England stands the exclusive boarding school known as Archangel Academy. Ancient and imposing, it's a place filled with secrets--just like its students. Reviewers are calling this book, the first in a new series, "the gay *Twilight*."
498 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Hartinger, Brent
Shadow Walkers
Zach lives with his grandparents and little brother Gilbert on a remote island in Puget Sound. When Gilbert is kidnapped, Zach tries the only thing he can think of to find him: astral projection. Soon, his spirit is soaring through the strange and boundless astral realm—-where he meets a boy named Emory, another astral traveler who's intriguing (and cute).
209 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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